Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about State Legislature

Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis says speed cameras are a revenue scam. These kids beg to differ. Photo: Brad Aaron

Speed Cameras Have Saved Lives in NYC, But to Nicole Malliotakis, They’re a “Gimmick”

By Brad Aaron | Mar 22, 2017 | 12 Comments

To hear Malliotakis tell it, the safety benefits of speed cameras are a smoke screen, calling them "a gimmick to raise revenue for the city." And you thought you'd heard the last of the old cameras-as-revenue-scam canard.

A motorist killed 88-year-old Feliks Dadiomov on Ocean Parkway, striking the victim head-on in a crosswalk. Simcha Felder’s bill to raise the speed limit would make the street more dangerous. Image: WABC

Simcha Felder Wants More People to Die on Ocean Parkway

By Brad Aaron | Mar 20, 2017 | 44 Comments

Felder has introduced a bill that would raise the speed limit on Ocean Parkway to 30 miles per hour, exempting the street from NYC’s citywide 25 mph limit.

The Assembly’s Uber Bill Is Better Than Cuomo’s

By David Meyer | Mar 14, 2017 | 8 Comments

On Friday, Assembly Democrats came out with their version of legislation to legalize Uber outside of New York City, and it includes some critical data transparency measures absent from similar bills put forward by Governor Cuomo and the State Senate.

Don't let him pick your pockets. Photo: Governor’s office/Flickr

State Assembly Wants to Restore Cuomo’s $65 Million MTA Cut

By Brad Aaron | Mar 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

Assembly lawmakers want to restore the $65 million transit cut in Governor Cuomo's draft budget. To reverse the cut, the draft budget released by the Carl Heastie-led Assembly [PDF, page 65-2] reallocates $65 million from New York Works, Cuomo's infrastructure piggy bank, to the MTA.

Governor Cuomo could improve transit and make NYC traffic less hellish by supporting the Move NY toll reform plan. Will he? Image: Move NY

Speed Cameras, Toll Reform, E-Bikes — Your 2017 Albany Watch List

By Brad Aaron | Feb 6, 2017 | 30 Comments

There's plenty Albany lawmakers can do this year to improve transit and make streets safer.

The motorist who killed 8-month-old Navraj Raju was ticketed for driving without a license. Queens DA Richard Brown thinks that’s punishment enough. Image: CBS

Richard Brown: Killing a Baby on a Sidewalk While Unlicensed Isn’t a Crime

By Brad Aaron | Jan 30, 2017 | 2 Comments

Brown apparently decided a low-level misdemeanor charge was too severe for the death of 8-month-old Navraj Raju.

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